絵本女貞木
An 18th-century Japanese illustrated book (ehon) illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu and published in 1745 by Kikuya Kihei, aimed at women readers. The pictures show courtly women in interiors reading, writing and attending to household life, drawn in fine black line with sparse tinted washes. A designer could take from them the economical line work, the layered screens and tatami floors that frame each scene, and the patterned kimono textures.
